<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Daniel Shawul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dshawul@gmail.com">dshawul@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Oh no I actually agree with you. But I share concerns of Joona about the kind of algorithm to be used.
<div>He probably used root parallelization scheme like I just did. It scales almost perfectly on a cluster of 16 cpus nps wise.
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<div>But then I realized this might not be as good as it seems because the different processors might not produce</div>
<div>significantly different trees.. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Obviously you mean the number of simulations scales almost perfectly. More important is how well the strength scales in your parallel implementation vs how well it scales in your sequential implementation.</div>
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<div>But, of course, that takes much longer to determine.</div>
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